“There are in nature
neither rewards nor punishments,
there are consequences.”
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
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“There are in nature
neither rewards nor punishments,
there are consequences.”
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Evil prevails where good men do nothing"
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
“Pretty much all the honest truth-telling
there is in the world
is done by children.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894)
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Sir Arnold Bax, Farewell my Youth (1943)
British composer (1883 - 1953)
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Calvin Trillin
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby
There are two things that smell like fish and fish is one of them.
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability
~ Sam Keen
“Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then,
you’re not honest.”
~ William Faulkner
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
Ah, summer
what power you have to make us suffer, and like it
~Russell Baker
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"To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable."
Ludwig Van Beethoven
I am summer, come to lure you away from your computer
come dance on my fresh grass, dig your toes into my beaches
~ Oriana Green
"A journey is a person in itself;
no two are alike.
And all plans, safeguards, policing,
and coercion are fruitless.
We find that after years of struggle
that we do not take a trip;
a trip takes us."
~ John Steinbeck
We're all going on a ..................summer holiday
No more working for a week or twoooooooooooooooooooooo
Fun and laiughter on our summer holiday
No more worries for me and you U u
for a week or two
~ Cliff Richard
"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dreams. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream."
Lao Tzu ---
“In all things it is better
to hope than to despair.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832)
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
"If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present."
Written in 2014 by Abhishek Shukla --- India
“I’m a genius
but nobody knows it but me.”
~ Charles Bukowski
No matter how big and bad you are, when a two-year-old hands you a toy phone, you answer it!
"Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“More gold has been mined
from the thoughts of men
than has been taken from the earth.”
~ Napoleon Hill
I know this has been here before but I love it.....
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jim Carrey
I thought this appropriate for this forum....
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.”
~ Joseph Campbell
“Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This is ow so true
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If you can't stand behind our troops,
feel free to stand in front of them!
Courtesy of member "Hardyards"
It must suck owning an 80 series petrol.......
My brother has bought a 60l fuel bladder. Lol
Is he gladder to have a 60 litre bladder?